Older and younger granitoids are widespread throughout the basement rocks of NE Egypt. Therefore, they are played a significant role in the evolution of the Pan-African crust. The Wadi El Sheikh-Gabal Saint Katherine area comprise three distinctive magmatic granitoid suites, namely: (1) calc-alkaline older quartz monzodiorite-tonalite suite (COG), (2) calcalkaline younger monzogranite suite (CY...

There is overwhelming and incontrovertible petrological and geophysical evidence for the significant role played by mantle-derived mafic magma in the generation and growth of continental crust. Likewise, intrusion of mafic magmas beneath or into continental crust is very likely the major source of enthalpy that drives intracrustal differentiation. A simple dynamical model has been constructed t...

Palaeoproterozoic high-K I-type granites, high-level porphyry intrusions, and felsic volcanic rocks of the Whitewater Volcanics dominate the Hooper and Lamboo Complexes in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. The granites, porphyries and volcanic rocks are gradational into each other in the field, and they have the same mineralogy, similar major and trace element abundances, and indi...

Introduction: In the search for life on Mars nearsurface soil environments may be important habitats for life accessible to future missions. Serpentinite rocks have been documented on Mars [1], as well as other clay minerals including smectite and kaolinites [2, 3]. Previous studies of soils formed on serpentinites on Earth have documented the formation of extensive clays, including smectite [4...

The composition of the silicate portion of Martian regolith fines indicates derivation of the fines from mafic to ultramafic igneous rocks, probably rich in pyroxene. Rock types similar in chemical and mineralogical composition include terrestrial Archean basalts and certain achondrite meteorites. If these igneous rocks weathered nearly isochemically, the nontronitic clays proposed earlier as a...

Introduction: The discovery of spinel rich rock on the Earth’s Moon, detected by the M near-IR mapping spectrometer on the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft [1] is among the most intriguing discoveries in a time filled with lunar revelations (e.g., [2]). The M spectrometer discerned several areas on the rim of the far-side Moscoviense basin which had near-IR reflectance spectra characteristic of abundan...

The Piedade Granite (approximately 600 Ma) was emplaced shortly after the main phase of granite magmatism in the Agudos Grandes batholith, Apiaí-Guaxupé Terrane, SE Brazil. Its main units are: mafic mineral-rich porphyritic granites forming the border (peraluminous muscovite-biotite granodiorite-monzogranite MBmg unit) and core (metaluminous titanite-bearing biotite monzogranite BmgT unit) and ...

Ultramafic-mafic rocks from Makrirrakhi, Central Greece exhibit features of an original ophiolite sequence which contains depleted mantle material, ultramafic containing partial melt textures and possibly the marie "pluton" which resulted from the coalescing of these partial melt segregations. Considerable mineralogical variation exists: unzoned olivine crystals range in composition from FoTs_s...

the dehno granite massive is located in the east dehno village and southern khomein city and within themetamorphic sanandaj–sirjan zone. the composition of these rocks include: granodiorite, quartzdiorite(tonalite), monzogranite and leucogranite. quartz, alkali feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, andalusite, hornblendemuscovite, tourmaline, zircon and apatite are examples of the existing major and ...